Toyota News

When Toyota introduced the Prius back in 1997, many thought it was the answer to oil prices that continued to swell uncontrollably. A decade and a half later, hybrid vehicles are losing their appeal with the U.S. market as gasoline engines not only continue to be cheaper, but close the ...    Read more

At the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon, the largest custom car show in Japan, Toyota plans to show a breathed-upon FT-86 with parts from Toyota Racing Development, as well as a diminutive supercharged iQ that in boxing parlance, tries to punch above its weight class. Yeah, because that’s one thing the iQ ...    Read more

WE’RE NUMBER ONE! WE’RE NUMBER ONE! Nobody at Honda is shouting this today—because while Honda may have beat Toyota, it’s in the number of cars recalled. Given Toyota’s recent kerfluffle of recalls, it’s a pretty lofty accomplishment. But Honda managed to outdo its crosstown rival with a whopping 17 campaigns in ...    Read more

Toyota Land Cruiser fans, rejoice! After years (decades?) of incremental nip/tuck changes, your favorite on and off-road full-size SUV celebrates the new year as one massive jack-of-all-trades package. The 2013 Toyota Land Cruiser takes all the features from the previous Upgrade Package and makes them standard. The feature list is long ...    Read more

Conventional wisdom held that 2011 would be the year of the compact car. Instead, it was a year of disaster, frustration, and not atypically—hope. But everyone already knows 2011's great story: tsunami, earthquake, floods, and burying the past. It's that last part, plus summer's annual focus on the next production ...    Read more

It wasn't a walk in the park by any stretch of the imagination for the automotive industry in 2011. Fuel prices continued to climb ever higher while a natural disaster ravaged both Thailand and Japan causing parts shortages for many automakers. Hybrid vehicles weren't safe from the aforementioned issues either, ...    Read more

Like oatmeal, homemade holiday cookies, and your Grandma Eunice, midsize sedans are a familiar sight in tough times. They’re not flashy (no matter how hard Hyundai tries), but they’re good for you. They’ve been around since forever, much like Eunice. And also like her, no matter how hard she tries ...    Read more

It appears the Far East may not be responsible for everything the United States imports anymore. In fact what was once one of Japan's major exports is being assembled right in our own backyard. A report by the Detroit Bureau reveals that almost seven out of 10 Japanese vehicles sold ...    Read more

Toyota’s plans for the Detroit Auto Show are wonderfully vague. To nobody’s surprise, it will showcase a plug-in hybrid to coincide with its ever-burgeoning Prius lineup. And to showcase—well, something, at least—Toyota has released this frankly bizarre video of the NS-4 concept, a car that’s been teased before, but ...    Read more

The auto industry rarely ever takes a step backward. Despite stiffer government regulations that make building exciting—yet practical—cars, trucks and SUVs, an even bigger challenge, 2012 looks to be another year of progress. With automakers leapfrogging one another in rapid sequence, we at Automotive.com, we looked at where we saw ...    Read more

Car recall rates are like weight loss and roller coaster rides: the faster they drop, the better. 2000 was a bad time for the auto industry, with more than 24 million light vehicles involved in recalls. Things improved in the following years, with recalls dropping to 7.7 million in 2008. ...    Read more

Ready or not Toyota here comes the 2012 Land Cruiser. The latest and larger variant broke cover in its homeland of Japan and we expect the global version to share very similar characteristics. While the U.S. version of the Land Cruiser 200—known simply as the Land Cruiser— has evolved into ...    Read more

If the world will end in December 2012 as the Mayan calendar predicts, it will still have been a good year for Toyota. Or so it predicts. And for the record, in choosing predictions, our money's on the Japanese automaker, not some mysterious, ancient calendar from a vanished civilization. So, ...    Read more

Chevrolet is recalling 3150 rental-only Captiva crossovers over concerns of a glitch between its engine and power steering pump. Vehicles labeled as a 2011 or 2012 model year and assembled between October 9, 2009 and April 21, 2011 are believed to be the ones affected. Driving in manual mode and ...    Read more

Automakers face a daunting task catching the attention of consumers already distracted by television, radio, MP3 players, smartphones, video games, CDs, DVDs, the "information superhighway," social media, video, apps, and -- oh, yeah -- magazines, newspapers, and even books (remember those?) . While some automakers resort to the tired but ...    Read more

Consumers may be scrambling for last minute holiday gifts, but our attention is already focused on the new year. Specifically, the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. And with good reason. First luxury automaker Lexus teased with exterior and interior shots of a new concept car which ...    Read more

Toyota has released pricing today for two heavyweights its stable: the 2012 Toyota RAV4 and 2012 Toyota Prius Liftback. The RAV4 is offered in three models: RAV4 grade, Sport, and Limited and will be priced $100 higher than last year's model. Toyota's wildly popular compact SUV will start at $22,650 ...    Read more

General Motors and Chrysler did not see truck sales charge upward when they debuted Chevrolet Silverado/GMC Sierra hybrid trucks and the Dodge Ram Hybrid oh so many years ago. Heck, Chrysler nixed the Dodge Ram Hybrid so fast that truck fanatics barely recall it. So why does it look like Toyota ...    Read more

The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety announced 115 recipients of its Top Safety Pick award. With 18 new vehicles joining the list for 2012, it’s especially surprising that 10 of them happen to be Honda models that have all been on sale for years now, showing the brand’s willingness to ...    Read more

At the 2012 Detroit Auto Show in January, Ford will pull the wraps off the first vehicles that could legitimately give the all-conquering Toyota Prius a run for its money. The C-MAX Hybrid and C-MAX Energi Plug-in are already both projected to lead their respective classes in fuel economy. The C-MAX ...    Read more

Automotive recalls are never fun for their makers. Just ask Toyota. In addition to the embarrassment of trotting out a massive, nationwide public campaign that basically states “we screwed up,” the government can also add insult to injury by fining automakers if it’s found that they have delayed a recall, ...    Read more

For the first time in about 100 years, hybrid and electric-powered vehicles appear to be gaining traction in the new car market. They’re selling so quickly that one research company says they will make up five percent of the U.S. market by 2017. The data comes from Pike Research, a technology ...    Read more

The world's largest automaker is cutting its forecasted profits 54 percent as production is hit especially hard by the recent flooding in Thailand. Toyota's Thai facilities are responsible for producing parts for the company's breadwinner, the Camry, and the Japanese automaker's popular hybrid, the Prius. According to a report by ...    Read more

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awarded the 2012 Toyota Camry a five-star safety rating today, as the car endured a series of crash testing and passed most with little issue. Evaluated for front, side, and rollover protection, the tests showed that the Camry was able to ward off injury in ...    Read more

In these Tiny Tim-fragile times it seems the U.S. is short on a lot of things, but apparently gasoline isn't one of them. According to a recent report the U.S. is "awash in gasoline," and is even exporting more than it is importing. The U.S. exporting gasoline may sound as likely ...    Read more